law forbids the government from explicitly spying on u.s. citizens on american soil without a court order. the cables crisscross under international waters, allowing the nsa to bypass that restriction. deniedogle and yahoo! allowing the government to collect their clients' data. >> we are outraged. >> it is unlike this to be the last snowden bombshell. himselfcan and the pope were also reportedly under surveillance. our international affairs editor douglas herbert has more on the reaction from google and yahoo! surrounding this latest controversy. >> they way it works right now in the u.s. as we are not reported to have a court, it is the foreignisc, intelligence surveillance court, and essentially yahoo! and google have been forced to hand over a lot of their data to u.s. onlyrities, to the nsa, under a court warrant approved by this court. here is where the problem comes into being. those legal restrictions only apply to users who reside on the territory of the united states. what this report says is basically that the nsa has been going t